SSAB Americas: North American Plate Mills

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CTL FacilitiesHoustonSSAB Texas, Inc.13609 Industrial Road, Suite 114Houston, Texas 77015Tel: 713-341-7701Fax: 713-455-0668

St. PaulSSAB Minnesota, Inc.2500 West County Road BRoseville, Minnesota 55113-3873Toll Free: 800-383-9031Tel: 651-631-9031Fax: 651-631-9670

TorontoSSAB Central, Inc.1051 Tapscott RoadScarborough, Ontario M1X 1A1Toll Free: 888-576-8530Tel: 416-321-4949Fax: 416-321-4945

Commercial ContactsMobileToll Free: 888-592-7070Tel: 251-662-4400Fax: 251-662-4360

MontpelierToll Free: 800-340-5566Tel: 563-381-5300Fax: 563-381-5322

HoustonToll Free: 877-722-2589 Tel: 281-671-1740 Fax: 281-807-1920

St. PaulToll Free: 800-383-9031Tel: 651-631-9031Fax: 651-631-9670

TorontoToll Free: 888-576-8530Tel: 416-321-4949Fax: 416-321-4945

SSAB is a Nordic and US-based steel company. SSAB offers value added products and services developed in close cooperation with its customers to create a stronger, lighter and more sustainable world. SSAB has employees in over 50 countries. SSAB has production facilities in Sweden, Finland and the US. SSAB is listed on the Nasdaq OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm and has a secondary listing on the Nasdaq OMX in Helsinki.

SSAB Americas HeadquartersSSAB Enterprises, LLC801 Warrenville Road, Suite 800Lisle, Illinois 60532Toll Free: 877-594-7726Tel: 630-810-4800Fax: 630-810-4600

Production FacilitiesMobileSSAB Alabama, Inc.12400 Highway 43 NorthAxis, Alabama 36505Toll Free: 888-592-7070Tel: 251-662-4400Fax: 251-662-4360

MontpelierSSAB Iowa, Inc.1770 Bill Sharp BoulevardMuscatine, Iowa 52761Toll Free: 800-340-5566Tel: 563-381-5300Fax: 563-381-5322

SSAB Americas:North AmericanPlate Mills

For coil and plate customers, SSAB Americas’ steel mills represent cost-effective sources for high-quality steel in a wide range of sizes—steel of exceptional flatness and superior surface quality. Chalk it up to experience; we’ve been making flat rolled steel utilizing Steckel technology for many years.

SSAB Americas’ two steel mills are centrally located in the Midwest and Southeast, with rail, river and road access for fast, economical delivery. Each facility has an annual nominal capacity of 1.25 million tons. We’re capable of producing plate up to 123” wide and 1,100” long, and from 3/16” to 3” in thickness, as well as coil up to 120” wide from 0.12” to 0.75” in thickness and in weights up to 50 tons.

But a superior product doesn’t mean much without the service to back it up. SSAB’s superior sales team works hard to ensure customers get exactly what they want, when they want it.

Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Plate MillsTake a look inside the world’s finest in-line plate mills: SSAB’s facilities in Montpelier, Iowa and Mobile, Alabama. From melt shop to shipping bay, you’ll find the latest technology and procedures for making steel of exceptional quality with unmatched efficiency. Our in-line, continuous process can take scrap to ready-to-ship steel in just over 4.5 hours.

1. Twin Shell Electric Arc Furnaces Shells are alternately being loaded with scrap or tapping into a ladle for continuous production. Eccentric bottom tapping is utilized to minimize slag carryover from the EAF and produce cleaner steel.

Montpelier: 150 ton tap weight

Mobile: 175 ton tap weight

2. Ladle Metallurgy Furnace This refining process removes impurities, provides uniform temperature, and adds alloys as required. For scheduling efficiency, ladles can alternate between refining and heating.

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3. Vacuum Tank Degasser Used to remove dissolved gasses in the steel.

4. Caster This state-of-the-art caster is one of the world’s widest, casting slabs 6” thick and up to 123” wide. Features such as hydraulic resonance mold, liquid core soft reduction and air-mist cooling improve surface quality and internal soundness. As steel exits the caster, it can be torch-cut into individual slabs up to 70 tons in weight, which results in increased slab-to-finished plate yields.

5. Slab Cooling Table Reduces slab surface temperature prior to warm charging into the reheat furnace.

6. Walking Beam Furnaces As the slab is “walking” through the furnace, the steel is uniformly heated, to temperatures between 2100°F to 2350°F prior to rolling. The walking beam furnace discharges slabs using extractor arms to prevent gouging of the slab surface.

7. Descalers High-pressure water spray removes scale.

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8. Steckel Mill The single-stand reversing mill uses Steckel furnaces on each side to store steel and retain heat during rolling. Hot steel slabs make multiple passes through the mill stand to reduce the steel to the final thickness and refine the steel microstructure. The mill features automatic gauge control (AGC), work roll bending and work roll shifting technology. A vertical edger allows improved width control and edge quality.

9. Flying Crop Shear Steel is cut into “mother” plates up to 240 feet long.

10. Laminar Cooling On-line accelerated cooling uses water to reduce plate temperature quickly and uniformly to enhance physical properties with less alloy additions.

11. Down Coiler Strip is wound using an adjustable wrapper to prevent surface damage. Coils exit the process here. Coils can weigh up to 75,000 pounds and 1250 P.I.W.

12. Hot Leveler Rollers flatten plate to 1/2 ASTM flatness tolerances or better.

13. Disk-Type Cooling Bed Bed uses rotating disks to roll (rather than drag) plates across air-cooling beds to prevent gouging of the bottom surface.

14. Static Shear Shear cuts heavy plate up to 2” thick in lengths of up to 80’. A laser velocimeter is used to measure plate length to ensure cutting accuracy.

15. Rotary Shear The edge trimmer is able to provide a sheared edge on plates up to 5/8” thick.

16. Cold Plate Leveler Designed to ensure 1/2 ASTM flatness tolerances or better for sheared plates up to 1” thick.

17. Heavy Plate Piler Single and twin stack piling for 5/8” to 2” thick plates.

18. Plate Bundle Conveyor Transfers plate to shipping bays.

19. Stack Cooled Plate Plate slow cooling ensures optimum internal quality for heavy gauge plates.

20. Burning Bed Heavy gauge > 2” to 3” thick plates are burned to length.

Not shown:21. Slitter (Montpelier) 96” wide slitter can cut coil multiples up through 5/8” thick.

22. Blast and Paint (Mobile)

23. Normalized and Quenched & Tempered Heat Treatments (Mobile)

Grades AvailableAISI C1006-C1045, vacuum degassed 4140, 15B30

Structural Steel ASTM A36, A514, A572, A588, A633, A656, A871, A709 (up to HPS-70W), A871

Pressure Vessel ASTM A285, A414, A516, A517, A537, A738

CSA 38W-60WT, 50AT, 70AT

Proprietary Grade ST 100XF

Abrasion AR200, AR235, AR400F

Offshore API 2MT1, 2W-50, 2H-50

Shipbuilding ABS, Lloyds

Oil Well Casing (Skelp) API-5CT H40, J55, L80, P110

Line Pipe Specifications (Skelp) API-5L Grade B to X-80

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